30 Frances Hesselbein Quotes for You to Enjoy

Frances Hesselbein

American Businessman

Born: Nov 1, 1915

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Practice self-awareness, self-evaluation, and self-improvement. If we are aware that our manners - language, behavior, and actions - are measured against our values and principles, we are able to more easily embody the philosophy, leadership is a matter of how to be, not how to do. Frances Hesselbein

When you see a roadblock or challenge as an opportunity, it is amazing how you are already halfway there. Frances Hesselbein

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A single person doesn't change an organization, but culture and good people do. Frances Hesselbein

Good Change Culture People Organization Good People Single Single Person Person

Not long after I was married, World War II began. My husband John volunteered for the Navy and was sent to Pensacola for training as a Naval Combat Air Crew photographer. It seemed a strange assignment for a young newspaper editor and writer, already exempt, but off he went, saying goodbye to our 18-month-old Johnny and me. Frances Hesselbein

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Selling cookies is usually a girl's first exposure to the world of business. She learns how to meet the public, talk about a product, sell the product, and is responsible for collecting money, giving change, and delivering the product. That's quite a business venture for a 7-year-old. Frances Hesselbein

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In my life, I don't have roadblocks and obstacles. I might have something you would call a 'challenge.' I throw that out the window, and I call that a wonderful opportunity. Frances Hesselbein

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At one time, there was a stereotype that your Girl Scout leader was the mother of a Brownie, but increasingly, we are having young businesswomen and professional women who are not mothers but care about children. Frances Hesselbein

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Girl Scouts helps girls make decisions that are right for them and offer support. Frances Hesselbein

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It is what we do with our lives that counts. Frances Hesselbein

Our Our Lives Counts Lives

When people are speaking, they require our undivided attention. We focus on them; we listen very carefully. We listen to the spoken words and the unspoken messages. This means looking directly at the person, eyes connected; we forget we have a watch, just focusing for that moment on that person. Frances Hesselbein

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Dispirited, unmotivated, unappreciated workers cannot compete in a highly competitive world. Frances Hesselbein

World Highly Cannot Workers Compete Competitive

I adored my grandparents and spent every weekend with Mama and Papa Wicks. They had seven children, so they needed a big house - and it seemed only logical to them to build into their house a pipe organ in a music room with a sixteen-foot ceiling. Frances Hesselbein

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In the future, it will not be the one big message, the one big voice, but millions of us, in our own way, healing, unifying, and experiencing that one defining moment when we recognize that sustaining the democracy is the common bottom line - whoever we are, whatever we do, wherever we are, the call is to sustain the democracy. Frances Hesselbein

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